What is in news : New Study Suggests Indus Valley People Spoke Ancestral Dravidian Language.

FINDINGS OF THE PAPER

• The paper
  • Suggested that speakers of ancestral Dravidian languages had a greater historic presence in northern India including the Indus Valley region from where they migrated
  • Took into account the thriving trade relations between the Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) and the Persian Gulf as well as Mesopotamia
• The word for elephant in Bronze Age Mesopotamia had its roots in a Proto-Dravidian language that was spoken by the IVC people
• SIGNIFICANCE: The possible implication of this finding is that there was a population movement from north-western India to south India